Tagged: Philip Hammond

The Residential Landlords Association has said that new figures published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show that the government’s recent tax increases are choking off investment in rented housing. The OBR’s Economic...

Evidence from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) indicates that the lethargy in the UK housing market is set to continue, despite the Government’s stamp duty cut. In last November’s budget the Chancellor,...

The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that one of the key measures introduced in yesterday’s budget could backfire on chancellor, Philip Hammond. Stamp duty for all properties up to £300,000 bought by first-time...

Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Spring Budget saw no direct reference to the introduction of mortgage interest tax relief charges for landlords which many had previously campaigned to be scrapped. However, it did announce measures that...

David Cox, the managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has branded the impending announcement from the Chancellor that letting fees are to be banned in England as a ‘draconian measure’...